Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | Pennsylvania Railroad | Union Pacific Railroad | Underground Railroad | Northeastern University | New York Central Railroad | Alaska Railroad | Erie Railroad | Central Pacific Railroad | Illinois Central Railroad | First Transcontinental Railroad | Lehigh Valley Railroad | Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad | Grand Funk Railroad | Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad | Wabash Railroad | Railroad switch | Missouri Pacific Railroad | Boston and Albany Railroad | New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad | Metro-North Railroad | Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad | Atlantic Coast Line Railroad | Albany and Susquehanna Railroad | Oregon Pacific Railroad | Great Railroad Strike of 1877 | Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad | Central Railroad of New Jersey | Boston and Lowell Railroad | West Shore Railroad |
Most, but not all, of the trail follows early 20th-century roadbeds of the former Manistee and Northeastern Railroad and Traverse City, Leelanau and Manistique, later reorganized as the Leelanau Transit Company.